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George Hager

GEORGE HAGER joined the USA Today editorial board in July 2006 after serving as USA TODAY’s White House editor from 2005-2006. From 2002-2005 he was the paper’s defense and foreign policy editor, supervising coverage of the Defense Department, the State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies. From 1999-2002, he was an economics reporter for the paper, covering the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, the Treasury Department, domestic economic trends and international lending organizations. He previously covered economics for The Washington Post and served as a senior writer and editor at Congressional Quarterly. In 1998-99, he was an economics writer with The Washington Post. In 1988-98, he was a reporter, senior writer and finally an editor at Congressional Quarterly. He was the 1996 winner of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress.

There are now just two months to go before all the tricks the Treasury is deploying to keep the government from hitting the debt ceiling no longer work. With luck, negotiations will produce a budget...

It's time for a budget gimmick. Seriously. The best way -- maybe the only way -- to avert a crisis over the debt limit in the next several weeks is for both parties to adopt a shameless gimmick that...

The deal that averted a government shutdown Friday night is a huge win for House Republicans, for the Tea Party and for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who hung tough to the last possible minute...

As if we needed further proof that governing is a lot harder than issuing campaign manifestos, now comes brand new Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., to say that, well, cutting spending is...